It's been a long time is I wrote a note that had any meaningful message. My voice has been sidelined ever since the events that happened during the Occupy Wall Street March. If you want more detail to why I am so passionate about America's lack of content with blatant disrespect to men of colour, or mixed race men whom were born from men with pigment in their skin. You can purchase my book online at Barnes & Nobles or through Nook. The book is called Wall Street Occupied, and it details the movement from the front lines. The book isn't selling well, but the impacted story will have you marching.
I am writing this note because BLACK LIVES MATTER. They matter to me, to you: they matter to the daughters that love them. They matter to the women that take care of them, and they matter to the fathers that birth them. With the many cases of senseless deaths which preclude the massive amounts of riots due to Mike Brown's case, was it a result of charged up energy of abuse from law enforcement. What happen to Mike Brown, was years of anger noted to being targeted?
Mike Brown, was no saint; maybe he committed minor crimes that would get him probation or counseling. His minor crimes, didn't grant his death. And the lack of remorse, plus the spirituality in a human's soul to disregard humanitarian needs; with saying the same results will be done again. Darren Wilson, Ferguson Police officer out of Missouri, we have had enough of these so called Justifiable Murders on young men in my generation. This country that was built on the blood of my people, and the sweat of immigrants, has had enough of the tormented treatment from those who are hired to protect and serve.
We shall not stand idle to be a crucifix on a legal system that profile us once we get a government issued ID. We shall not be justifiably murder before we can legally toast a drink. We shall not be memorials that brings morality to men in uniforms shooting down men of colour, without just cause.
As children we are tought to repsect the law, as teenagers we are forced to run from the law. As young minds we are profiled until we hate the law, and as men we now stand to defend ourselves from the law.
What makes a beautiful child of colour, a demon as a teenager; angry as a young mind and an animal (Thug) as an adult. When that same stem sprouted with love and passion, only to find out that we are still being denied encome equality!
People say slavery was so far away, and we have made so many miles on that mountain of prosperity. Yet, the respect for the lives of men like me isn't there, no matter who you are. In the eyes of those who are here to protect and serve, you are a nigger, a thug, an angry black man, not worthy of life; a demon and an animal. You can be President Barack Obama, and saved their loved ones from dying form cancer or ebola, with a stroke of a pen that brought a law. And they will hate you for it because President Obama has pigment in his skin. You can be a college grad just about to start a family, and they will shoot you down -- for appearing to have a gun while you are unarmed. They can stalk you in your own community, say you're trying to steal your own stuff and shoot you down for reaching for the keys and information they're asking you for. They can have reasons for justified killings, for holding toys in public, or for the celebration of new years with friends and family. They can claim self defense while starting a fight, while you're walking home. They can pull you in a car not announce who they are, shoot you and while you run away: they can gun you down with 7 more shots, and say they feared for their life. They can say you were resisting arrest, stop and frisk you endlessly because they can. They can kill you, or spray you with tear gas: during a protest, on economic equality. Then make up fake files to smear your name as a common criminal. All they need is your social security and they can get that when they frisk you.
They demand respect and honor, for killing and doing their jobs. Right, it's a JOB, you are suppose to protect and serve, not abuse that order have lack of judgement, shoot to kill and racially profile on group of men, because you fear them.
Malcolm X always said, "We didn't land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth Rock landed on us." My members of a civilian population who have been targeted, harassed by the police. Now is the time to come out of that rock.
Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King Jr said: "From the mountain tops to the Himalayas that all men are created equal." To the civilian population who have been targeted, now is that time to walk across that mountain top and fight for that Himalaya.
Medgar Evers died, so that Mike Brown could never get shot. Jim Crow was a law that made sure Trayvon Martin couldn't be judge by what he is wearing. Malcolm X died, so that Eric Gardner, Shawn Bell, Jon Crawford, Tymir Rice, and all the cases of police brutality can end, and those lives be saved.
Dr. Rev Martin Luther King Jr died, so we as a world and nation can treat all men equal. So that Mike Brown, myself and all men of colour would have just cause on crimes committed against us, and that there never be a notion of justifiable murder.
Now, is that moment becauase we may have freed people of colour from racism, but we haven't freed our men of colour from the racist justice system that killed all of our leaders and young men legally.
Now the nay sayers will say, what about black on black crimes. We can't put out bush fires without putting out the 5 alarm forests fire. And that is why we protest, since those leaders have died, but we still left their creed behind. The Civil Rights Movement help everyone but men that looked like me, and the legal system designed to kill me. And that is why I protest, since my life matters, and should yours.
